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Are you Flattering Future You?
Or do you actually want to improve?
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If you’re worried your story is too long, it probably is.
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Think about the last time you were truly captivated by something. I’d bet a good story was involved.
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Storytelling isn’t just for performers. It’s how we sell, persuade, and connect.
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Your voice is a spotlight. Where you put emphasis tells the audience what matters.
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A great storyteller isn’t performing at a listener—they’re creating with them.
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Don’t just SAY a story. TELL it.
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Vary your pacing. Use speed to highlight. Use pauses to underline.
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A single sound effect can do the work of an entire paragraph of description.
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You choose your words wisely—why wouldn’t you do the same with your gestures?
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Silence and stillness are tools in stories. Use them.
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If you perform a story exactly the same way every time, you’re probably not listening to your audience.
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A small, striking image beats a long, detailed description every time.
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Great stories are conversations between you and the pictures in your audience’s minds.
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Pausing for laughs isn’t more important than pausing for thoughts.
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Bookmarking, underlining, and highlighting aren’t just for books. They’re PERFORMANCE-STORYTELLING tools.
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Interesting doesn’t mean more. It often means LESS, just MORE INTERESTING.
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Story is how we decorate the mind of the listener for a period of time.
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If the setup to your joke’s broke, your punchline has absolutely no chance.
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Just because something exists doesn’t mean it’s interesting. Same goes for stories.
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A story should create questions in the audience’s mind that they need YOU to answer.
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A joke is a machine of organized words that manufactures a laugh.
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The best storytellers don’t add new images to an audience's mind—they help the audience dream up new images from their old ones.
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Want your audience more invested? Give them just enough so they fill in the rest… if they fill in the rest, they’re now, literally, a PART of the story.
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In storytelling, the clock is always ticking. Magic is brief. Get to the good stuff.
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The best way to start a story? Drop people into the middle of something happening.
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Many people tell stories like they were taught to write essays. And we all know—those school essays were thrilling, edge-of-your-seat masterpieces.
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In storytelling, the clock is always ticking. Magic is brief. Get to the good stuff.
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Someone messaged me: 'I think my story is boring—maybe I’m not a good writer.' But what if the story isn’t boring… what if your telling is?
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